Hi all. I tried to compile ghc-5.00.2 on a RedHat-7.1 system by booting from HC files. (Actually, I have a ghc-5.00 installed, but apparently some programs compiled with it segfault, and this makes compilation of ghc-5.00.2 impossible. Note that I have a working happy-1.10, however.) Now it seems that the distrib/hc-build script is broken. First of all, this is a minor point, but it calls ./configure twice, and the second time it omits passing $configopts to it, so that anything like --prefix will fail. But this is not the problem I have. To avoid the above gotcha, I manually drove the various commands. Up to the second invocation of "configure", everything works fine. I end up with a working ghc-inplace (well, it seems to work). But no interface (.hi) files. How on earth are these supposed to be generated? The hc-build script calls ./configure a second time; now that does not find a working ghc (of course: it doesn't know about the just built ghc-inplace), so GHC="" in the Makefiles, and the attempt to make all in ghc/utils fails miserably (in a ridiculous way, in fact: since GHC="", the next argument on the command line, viz. "-ldl", becomes the command, and GNU make looks for a program called "ldl", doesn't find it, and ignores the error because of the prepended "-"; similarly, some "-o" commands look for a program named "o" and ignore the error). I tried passing GHC to point to the ghc-inplace program built, but that doesn't work either (missing interface files, so ghc/utils can't be built; and ghc/libs can't be built because of the missing ghc/utils). It seems that we still have a chicken-and-egg problem which the .hc files have done nothing to solve. Any suggestion (other than starting from a binary build, which is what I suppose I'll try now)? (Note: I'm not subscribed to the list. Please Cc me all replies.) -- David A. Madore (david.madore@ens.fr, http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/ )